The University of Queensland (UQ)

Australia

For more than a century, The University of Queensland (UQ)’s exceptional study experiences, research excellence and collaborative partnerships have delivered knowledge leadership for a better world.

Across UQ’s three campuses, our 7,200 staff and 54,925 students – including almost 20,000 postgraduates and approximately 20,000 international students from 142 countries – teach, research and study.

With a strong focus on teaching excellence, UQ is Australia’s most awarded university for teaching* and attracts the majority of Queensland’s high achievers, as well as top interstate and overseas students.

UQ’s 280,000 graduates are an engaged network of global alumni who span more than 170 countries and include more than 15,400 PhDs.

UQ consistently ranks among the world’s top universities as measured by several key independent rankings, including the CWTS Leiden Ranking (31)**, Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities (39), U.S. News Best Global Universities Rankings (42), QS World University Rankings (46), Academic Ranking of World Universities (54), and Times Higher Education World University Rankings (62).

With a 2019 operating revenue of AU$2.19 billion, including more than $452 million in research investment, UQ’s six faculties and eight globally recognised research institutes cover a remarkable breadth of teaching and research.

In recognition of our research quality, UQ was acknowledged in the 2018 Excellence in Research for Australia initiative for above-world-standard research in 93 specialised fields – more than any other Australian university.

Through UniQuest, UQ’s technology transfer and commercialisation company, UQ is also Australia’s leading university for commercialisation revenue, number of active startup companies and value of equity held in startup companies formed from university intellectual property. 

UQ is one of only three Australian members of the global Universitas 21, and one of only three Australian charter members of the prestigious edX consortium: the world’s leading not-for-profit consortium of massive open online courses (MOOCs).

* UQ has won more national teaching awards than any other Australian university.
** This ranking is measured by the Impact indicator P, P (top 10 per cent), and PP (top 10 per cent) with fractional counting.

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1 December 2019 - 30 November 2020

Region: Global
Subject/journal group: All

The table to the right includes counts of all research outputs for The University of Queensland (UQ) published between 1 December 2019 - 30 November 2020 which are tracked by the Nature Index.

Hover over the donut graph to view the FC output for each subject. Below, the same research outputs are grouped by subject. Click on the subject to drill-down into a list of articles organized by journal, and then by title.

Note: Articles may be assigned to more than one subject area.

Count Share
525 163.37

Outputs by subject (Share)

Subject Count Share
Earth & Environmental Sciences 115 46.53
Life Sciences 291 69.97
American Journal of Human Genetics 3 0.11
Cancer Research 1 0.01
Cell 6 1.54
Cell Stem Cell 1 0.01
Current Biology 7 3.53
Developmental Cell 2 0.72
Ecology Letters 2 0.53
Genome Research 1 0.08
Immunity 2 0.06
Journal of Biological Chemistry 9 4.40
Journal of Cell Biology 5 3.60
Journal of Clinical Investigation 4 0.19
Journal of Experimental Medicine 3 0.23
Journal of Neuroscience 8 3.75
Molecular Psychiatry 8 1.28
Nature 23 1.99
Nature Biotechnology 4 1.18
Nature Cell Biology 1 0.01
Nature Communications 83 18.89
Nature Genetics 7 0.28
Nature Immunology 4 0.50
Nature Medicine 6 0.24
Nature Neuroscience 3 0.88
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 1 0.05
Neuron 4 0.23
PLOS Biology 5 1.49
PLOS Genetics 7 1.76
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 18 6.36
Proceedings of the Royal Society B 10 3.62
Science 14 2.25
Science Advances 14 3.70
Evidence that investors penalize female founders for lack of industry fit
2020-11-01
 0.20
Genomic signatures in the coral holobiont reveal host adaptations driven by Holocene climate change and reef specific symbionts
2020-11-01
 0.07
Evolution and effects of the social-ecological system over a millennium in China’s Loess Plateau
2020-10-01
 0.33
Structural basis of trehalose recycling by the ABC transporter LpqY-SugABC
2020-10-01
 0.10
Neurotoxic peptides from the venom of the giant Australian stinging tree
2020-09-01
 0.91
A novel system to map protein interactions reveals evolutionarily conserved immune evasion pathways on transmissible cancers
2020-07-01
 0.01
Ancient genomes reveal complex patterns of population movement, interaction, and replacement in sub-Saharan Africa
2020-06-01
 0.07
Bows and arrows and complex symbolic displays 48,000 years ago in the South Asian tropics
2020-06-01
 0.12
All major cholesterol-dependent cytolysins use glycans as cellular receptors
2020-05-01
 0.15
Nanoparticle elasticity regulates phagocytosis and cancer cell uptake
2020-04-01
 0.57
Emergence of a Neolithic in highland New Guinea by 5000 to 4000 years ago
2020-03-01
 0.04
Tracking extracellular vesicle phenotypic changes enables treatment monitoring in melanoma
2020-02-01
 0.64
Poly(amino acids) as a potent self-adjuvanting delivery system for peptide-based nanovaccines
2020-01-01
 0.49
NS1 DNA vaccination protects against Zika infection through T cell–mediated immunity in immunocompetent mice
2019-12-01
 0.01
Science Translational Medicine 4 0.71
The EMBO Journal 3 0.10
The ISME Journal: Multidisciplinary Journal of Microbial Ecology 8 2.93
eLife 10 2.74
Chemistry 111 34.13
Physical Sciences 76 28.44

Highlight of the month

Endangered fishes on our dishes

© Daniel Grill/Tetra Images/Getty Images

© Daniel Grill/Tetra Images/Getty Images

Unbeknownst to consumers, commercial fisheries have been reeling in endangered species amidst their usual haul.

Despite ongoing efforts to curb overfishing and replenish dwindling fish stocks, many endangered species still end up on the international seafood market.

A team that included University of Queensland researchers trawled global fisheries catch and seafood imports data to find the volume and value of individual fish and invertebrate species caught and sold between 2006 and 2014.

Based solely on official catch records, they identified 60 vulnerable, 20 endangered and 11 critically endangered species. Around three quarters of the total catch volume was haddock, Atlantic horse mackerel and bigeye tuna.

The USA and several European countries import the most threatened species, while several Asian countries may import more than they report due to a lack of species separation in their databases.

Mandatory catch reports separated by species would enable accurate tracing of threatened fish and support international efforts against overfishing.

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  1. Nature Communications 11, 4764 (2020). doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-18505-6

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1 December 2019 - 30 November 2020

International vs. domestic collaboration by Share

  • 32.19% Domestic
  • 67.81% International

Note: Hover over the graph to view the percentage of collaboration.

Top 10 domestic collaborators by Share (191 total)

  • The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia
  • Domestic institution
  1. The University of Melbourne (UniMelb), Australia (20.13)
    10.76
    9.37
  2. Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia (18.51)
    12.98
    5.53
  3. University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), Australia (18.24)
    10.64
    7.60
  4. Monash University, Australia (18.21)
    7.80
    10.40
  5. QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Australia (16.75)
    7.90
    8.85
  6. The University of Sydney (USYD), Australia (14.99)
    9.47
    5.52
  7. The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia (11.19)
    5.72
    5.48
  8. Griffith University, Australia (10.64)
    5.73
    4.91
  9. University of Wollongong (UOW), Australia (9.52)
    7.94
    1.58
  10. The University of Western Australia (UWA), Australia (9.17)
    5.24
    3.93

Top 10 international collaborators by Share (2449 total)

  • The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia
  • Foreign institution
  1. University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK) (10.45)
    4.24
    6.21
  2. East China Normal University (ECNU), China (9.50)
    4.35
    5.15
  3. Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China (8.87)
    4.01
    4.85
  4. Harvard University, United States of America (USA) (7.37)
    4.09
    3.29
  5. ShanghaiTech University, China (6.37)
    2.40
    3.96
  6. University of Bristol (UoB), United Kingdom (UK) (5.83)
    2.61
    3.22
  7. National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan (5.69)
    2.38
    3.31
  8. Max Planck Society, Germany (5.36)
    1.99
    3.36
  9. French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France (5.31)
    4.36
    0.95
  10. Tsinghua University, China (5.24)
    2.44
    2.80

Note: Collaboration is determined by the fractional count (Share), which is listed in parentheses.

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